Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this presidential election year begins, we are hearing once again from those who preach the dangerous gospel of protection and isolation," Christopher said. "As President Clinton said at the beginning of his administration, 'we must compete, not retreat...
What makes these numbers important, not just encouraging, is that they extend what is plainly a sustained retreat from the crack-fueled crime wave of the late 1980s. According to the FBI, violent crimes started to decline in 1993. As always with crime, an area of famously wiggly trend lines, the downward curve is not to be found everywhere. Minneapolis, Minnesota, for instance, is still puzzling over why in 1995 homicides climbed more than 56% over the preceding year. Even with the downward trend, crime rates remain bloodcurdlingly high, especially when compared to the relatively peaceable kingdom...
Asked about persistent rumors that he'll soon jump ship, Bratton says even if he stays only another year, "that's enough time to consolidate our gains, so that long after I'm gone, my successors won't retreat." As for Kelly's burning-village imagery, Giuliani and Bratton dismiss such talk as sour grapes, pointing to the benefits of reduced crime being enjoyed by those hardest hit by it: Latinos and African Americans in the poorest parts of New York City. "The crime reduction has been across the board, in every neighborhood," says Bratton. That means four fewer people...
...campus political clubs give students every reason to pass them by and retreat from political involvement. Instead of finding ways to unite, the dueling Harvard Republican Club and Harvard Republican Alliance have been moving further and further away from one another. The two clubs have been engaging in a vicious and personal e-mail...
...dirty secret was that the warring weekends shared much common ground. Said Jeffrey Eisenach, the head of the Progress and Freedom Foundation and one of this season's few conservatives at the Renaissance retreat: "On both sides of the ideological split there is a sense of groping for a new vision of where the country is going...